Sunday, June 19, 2011

THE PURPLE PAW PARADE AT LAST!!!!


Kevin and I planned months ago to attend the Second Annual PURPLE PAW PARADE to benefit Orphan Animal Rescue and Sanctuary in Neenah, WI, so you can imagine how excited we were that the time had finally come! This wonderful group has become family to us.

Although we were hoping to see more of our past adopters, we were incredibly happy to get to see Mose (aka Sterling- thanks Shawn for bringing him!). Sterling was one of Jewel's 5 pups that we fostered from a few days old (in fact, he was the runt!). Check out these babies from when they were a couple weeks old (Sterling is the little silver one of course); http://woofconnections.blogspot.com/2010/11/happy-3-week-birthday-to-jewels.html

We also appreciated Jaime and Glen bringing Riley for the walk! There was a great turnout and we hope that OARS receives even more donations in the future for their great work! They have saved so many lives from this area and we love them! Check out their website for more information on their wonderful organization www.orphananimalrescue.org!

We had such a great time and were so happy to finally meet some of our "Facebook Friends"! Many of the people we met have donated to either Oso's heartworm treatment and/or Peanut's heartworm treatment, so it was just wonderful! Check out some of the pictures from the Parade below!


We were completely surprised AND honored to receive a surprise award for saving lives (we should be giving THEM the award!). In all honesty, this meant the world to us. We can't wait to have a real "shelter" to hang this on the wall along with photos of happy tails!








Hard to believe this gorgeous boy was the tiny runt!







Max is a wonderful boy who is available for adoption through OARS!


















































A COOKOUT FOR US- THANKS AGAIN JAIME AND GLEN!

Kevin and I were very surprised and grateful that Jaime and Glen decided to have a cookout for us while we were in Wisconsin. We wished we lived closer so we could hang out with everyone :( Great to see all of you and thank you so very much once again! Here are some photos from their house.

Miles is fitting right in!



Jaime's precious kids Hannah and Nate have welcomed their new family member too!


Riley is loving having a new playmate! Riley was adopted as a puppy from the Osceola Animal Shelter in AR as well!


It won't be long until Miles can keep up so watch out Riley!
How sweet is this! Click on the pic for an enlarged view- so sweet!

So great to see Beth and Mark again too! Beth is the whole reason we have been blessed to meet all of our Wisconsin friends- we love you :)


Mark hanging out with Riley!



Kevin is purposefully in the path of the BBQ smoke- lol!



Jaime with her new baby Miles!

Break out the Yo-Yo- HA! Old school...

Emily V giving Riley some smooches! So great to finally meet you Emily!





Emily A stopped by too- wonderful to see you! Had to snuggle with little Miles of course!



Glen is a very talented musician too!




Great time ladies- THANK YOU!